Beware of this Garden SCAM! Build Your Own Tomato Cages.
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Tomato cages sold at garden stores are the biggest gardening scam ever created! Don't buy these little tomato cages unless you plan to use them on pepper plants. It's much easier just to build your own tomato cages from concrete reinforcement wire.
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I only eat free range tomatoes. Caging them is just plain cruel.
Seriously?😢
Oh god 😧are you that stupit
Lol
You funny!
Joe Shopper 😂😂😂
Great build 😀 Little tip.... What ever size diameter cage you want, say around 24 inches from example. All you have to do is treble ( X by 3 ) that 24 inches and it'll give you the length to cut the wire for a round cage thats about 23 inches diameter. Works for any size you like . So 12 inch diameter cage = 36 inches of wire 😀😀
Wow I didn't know Seth MacFarlane was a gardener too
He does kinda look like a Seth McFarland if seth became a farmer doesnt he...
He has the same sense of humor too.
These things are the bane of my gardening existence!! I’ve never understood the logic behind using a top heavy “cage” to try to hold up a top heavy plant.
This is a great video for any beginning gardener. I bought 30 heavy duty so called tomatoe cages when I first started gardening. Sold them all 2 years later when someone showed me their remesh cages. Something no one talks about is training your plants. I go out to my plants every couple of days and make sure all of the vines stay inside the cage. If you allow them to come out of the cage and then they set fruit they will break! So keep your plants inside of the cages just by pushing them in with your hand. Some of my plants are 6' tall and growing.
A man in my valley says he grows tomatoes in his orchard. He says the tomato originated in jungle areas, so it can tolerate shade. His tomatoes use the fruit trees for support.
I have been using the WWF (welded wire fabric or mesh as known in the construction business) for many years. This is a method used by my dad when he began gardening back in the 1960s. There are still a few of his original cages that I use today, April 28,2019. They will rust if left in ground contact while in storage.
For the length of mesh you want, take a look at the diameter you want and multiply by 3. That will close to your chosen diameter. Make adjustments from there. The squares are 6” sq. so the length is easy to determine. No additional tools needed.
As the tomato cages rust they can be cut to pepper height cages.
Enjoyed your video.
The tomato cages are great turned upside down wire closed to a point. Then twine Christmas lights and now you have lawn decorations of little trees.
Yes lol I use then for that 😂
What a great idea!
They’re great for peonies and tulips!
I grow my cucumbers in reversed tomato cages in double tire planters. Grows 3 great plants vertically!
I use concrete reinforcing wire cages for my tomatoes and EVERYTHING you said is spot on the money.!!!
The store cages good to put around flowers for support. They also differentiate which plants are "savers" and which are "weeds" when your have a husband that weed whacks every green thing that's not in a raised bed!
Sounds like my wife
Sounds like me.
Lol.
I know the feeling all too well of having a husband that goes on a weed-whacking spree. Oh but the tears he has caused my eyes to leak over the last 34 years of our marriage! He’s been pulled off of weed-whacking duties in the backyard for the foreseeable future - ie: until one of us dies.
At least your husband weed whacks. My yard wont get done unless i do it.
Years ago I stopped using those useless cages for tomatoes. Your cages have worked well for me. I might add that straight "Cattle Panels" work well too. They require a few minutes once a week to ensure the tomatoes are trained through the squares for support, but they store much, much easier in the off season - which is important for me.
Thank goodness I saw this video. I’m growing tomatoes for the first time and now I’m going to go buy a roll of concrete mesh.
My first time gardening as well also.... Will d efinitely buy this good luck!!
YUP! Way back in my dark and early aged past, I bought a bunch of those little cages and found them to be junk and worthless. Now in my golden age ( or is that gray age ) I have nothing to do with them. Thank You for the great video. I hope the new folks to gardening watch your video and learn.
Yea... I’m one of those new gardeners🙋🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
My tomato plant has now outgrown the “tomato” cage and am now planning on cutting the cage and building a trellis... I will definitely look into concrete reinforcement wire cage... thanks!
Thank you, so helpful! I knew when my tomatoes grew to gigantic proportions last year, and SWALLOWED the tomato cages, that I would need something better thus year. Thanks again!
I've been searching and searching for something like this and all I got was videos of poles and commercial tomato cages. I'm so happy I found u!!!!! Instant follow
Really scary and dangerous to cut when rolled up as it pops up and be careful it does not hit you in the eye. Very unruly.
Safety glasses, heavy boots, jeans and a long sleeved jean shirt, and I still lost blood rolling it out to cut, but it was worth it. ;)
Yes... Been using mine for Years... My Late Husband made mine Years ago. and they still are just as good as when New :)
This is the best and most economical cages I’ve found so far. I was just about to buy a cage and tying strings for 50tysomething dollars. I’m glad I checked you out first. 🤗
What a great idea. I'm on my 4th generation of tomatoes for this year and are using this idea for them. I also arched a 12 foot long section over a raised bed for a couple determinate tomatoes and cucumber plants. Thanks for the wonderful idea!
For vine tomatoes I use string tied to the roof of the greenhouse. Much less weight & easier to store than cages
I made me 10 concrete reinforcement wire cages five years ago and they are still holding up perfectly to this day. Sure they are rusted, but these things are practically invincible. You can also stack 'em which is nice if you're growing cherries. Somewhat expensive though where I live, I paid about $100 CAD for the roll of CRW if I remember correctly. I grew some maters in those flimsy 'tomato cages' and they just snapped once they got over it. No good. Lately I've been using bamboo stakes and picking off the suckers and that's a nice and cheap method and also looks really neat and tidy - pretty too when full of tomato clusters. Nice vid.
Love to see a picture of that!
Thank you. I have used that re-mesh for 35 years here up in Canada. Sure at few spots the wire has rusted off but still using them. It's the best.
Thanks for this video. I got one of those cages from my mother-in-law and I loved it. I have terrible problems with cages that are too flimsy for the plants. Now I'm smart enough to make my own.
Thanks for your great tips! All the best with your homesteading. :)
Great video! Now I know what to do with the 20' of 4" welded wire fence sitting next to my shed.
Love it, my dad has his same tomato cages from 40 years ago...
This guy is spot on. I started gardening last year after years of not having one. I went and bought the 33” ones and it was almost useless once the tomatoes took off. I have since used them for my bell and banana peppers. This year I tried the T post, Florida weave technique but next year I am trying his method for sure. I’m mad at myself for not doing so this year.
Wow. Thank you Daniel. Great advice 👍. And as always God bless an take care.
My husband and I made a bunch of these when I started gardening 30 years ago. I'm still using them. I cut the bottom ring like you said and some have rusted but I just cut them shorter and use for plants that don't grow as tall
I just cut the bottom ring off of some that I made 20 years ago. The shorter ones work great for eggplant and banana pepper.
I have been searching for the name of this wire -Remesh -THANK YOU!!!
I have been following u guys for some time now and i know ur garden looks really good and ur ideas are super great. Thanks for sharing!!
You're right; I got scammed & those so called 'tomato cages' I bought were about as useless as a tit on a bull. Yours are MUCH better. Thank you!
Or as worthless as the tits on a boar hog😆
the tiny ones they sell at the store always fall over under the weight. there's a huge bamboo patch near my house that i make trellises out of the old falllen canes for my tomatoes, peas, ect
We made sure we had bamboo on the property when we built the farm for this reason!
the ones for pepper plants?
Well I fell for the store tomato so call cages, but this year I will making some like yours. Thank you so much.
Thanks for explaining this to me! I recently got a gift tomato plant from my landlord. I don't have ability to garden often but I wanted to try to grow a plant for our own tomatoes. I saw them tomato cages you were talking about and I had no idea how to use them. Glad I saw this video. I am crafty and love creating things to use. I actually made a tray catch for a bird feeder on a double shepherd's hook. It came out great and serves it's purpose. I love watching the songbirds come visit and they aren't leaving a big mess anymore. Thinking of getting a patent for it now. Thanks for the tips!
Those cages are great for supporting bug netting I put over my brassica plants
That’s a good idea! 😊
That's what my husband always fixes for our tomato plants! Then we just have to reach in to pick the tomatoes!
Im with you Daniel. I use mine for decoration, they do work for small hot peppers.
You're so right I bought those cages and is a waist of money. Your Idea is great. Love the canape and garden boxes please tell us about them on your next video. Thanks
Yep we made these last year they worked the store bought one is a joke 💯 😂
definitely recommend using fence lol
I reuse my cages year after year. They work fine. 70 year old gardener.
And you can pick them up cheap online from people that don't want them anymore. Much cheaper.
Does it harm the plants when the wires gets rusted?
That's a great idea. I haven't gardened in years but if I were to start again i'd use this in a heartbeat.
So true young man, great job. Thanks for educating the newbies to gardening. Greetings from Northern Michigan USA.
What a great idea and I WAS one of those who bought those so called tomato cages but by far your suggestion is way better
I’ll definitely be on it next time
I’m a new subscriber
How tall are the T-post? I'm new at gardening.
I was a new Gardner! I used a thing called a stick from the forest for free! I still use the same sticks for the past 5 years! The same I do for the cucumber plants! The ones I like the most are from a young hazlenut tree! They are the most durable!
I always use sticks or what ever is long & strong enough to place in the ground(old broom or mop stick). Than tie my tomatoes to it. No money need all free items.
No stick will work for me, last year my tomatoes grown in buckets were over 15 feet tall.
@@yolandawebster7808 where is your proof? 15 feet? Prove it!
@@svetlanikolova7673 mine too. I used concentrated nitrogen ... They grew 15 feet easy.
@@kuhelss what concentrated nitrogen! I don't have that in my country. Can I use coffee grounds?
Thanks for the great advice!! I was thinking of building my own, now I definitely will! Thanks again!
Thanks so much. I have tried several different supports and this is the best idea yet. Thanks!!! Your garden is beautiful by the way
I turned mine upside down, strung Christmas lights and bam I had yard decor for holidays~ Christmas trees🎄
LOL... But I love watching our tomato plants crush them... ahahaha... We just use a single t-post, and tie the plants up with sisal twine... We dont even fuss with the cages anymore... But I like the idea of the concrete wire... Thanks for sharing...
Hi to use the concrete reinforcement wire.
Instead of using T post which is it added expense,instead on garbage day pickup all the broom handles & mop handles Etc and use them to help cut my cost.
YAY!!!! Thank you for posting this video!!! I have been struggling with what to do for my tomatoes, pole beans and cukes...I used bamboo poles last time and it was not so great.
You are so right about garden center tomato cages. I've got probably a dozen of them. And yes, they do work great for hot peppers. I have some 4" ranch fencing wire. I'm pretty sure it can handle a tomato plant.
I did not know that about the different tomatoes
Re mesh rusts, I used cattle fencing, galvanized steel, rust free ,a little tough to bend, but very sturdy.
I used a cattle panel also.
I made some cages about 4 years ago. Made mine out of 3 panels with hinges so they easily unfold for storage. I made some curved a bit, but left others as triangles.
I use rebar with a bend to hold them in place, like a super tent stake.
I'm with you on those scam trellises. We've used the tall cylinder trellises now for years and love them. They have large enough grid you can still grab a tomatoes and get your hand out of the opening. Instead of t-posts I use cedar stakes, 3 on each trellis. Drive each halfway into the soil at even intervals around the trellis. Next I tie the trellis to the stakes. In August we get substantial summer winds and as of yet have had them budge. Oh by the way, these fit perfect into large planters like utility buckets, half barrel or whiskey barrel planters.
The other trellises we had we liked a lot were square towers that collapsed down for storage. 4 rungs offset so the whole thing folded easily. They were made from scrape hardwood a friend gave us and the only downside was the ends that were sunk into the ground rotted over time. Had a short broad one for ground cherries that worked perfectly. Held the branches up off the ground giving us a clear view of the fruit on the ground.
The key is large holes. If you use a small holed fence or grid, you wont be able to reach your hand in and take out a tomato.
I look around and find it free all the time. I use the one's peeps buy and trow out or my bell peppers. I am that guy who will use what I find. After all I am trying to grow good food with out spending a arm and a leg. God Bless
Yes, gardening is best done frugally. It doesn't take much money to make your home grown veggies more expensive than the market and if you have amish in your area, they usually sell veggies way cheaper than you can grow yourself. gardening on the cheap is the only way.
I started a garden because I like doing it cheap. My wife got involved and it's a crap ton of work now and costs more than the food we get.
@@Knotrockets I planted originally started from store bought tomatos ,peppers, potatoes, spring onion , sweet potatoes etc never bought a seed lol
You're right , i have bought and replaced the skinny , bendy , weak cages for years.. It's funny how fast they bend and fold under the weight of a GOOD tomato plant..
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Great video..
I had to subscribe👍👍👍👍
Thanks from canada!
This is my first year attempting a greenhouse and this is gonna save so much time.
I can vouch for this stuff lasting a long time. I have a cage a relative gave me made of this stuff. I've had it outside in the weather 24/7/365 for about four years and it still looks the same as when I got it.
Flip them over tape the three wires together and wrap them with Christmas lights stake it to the ground and it makes a pretty good Christmas tree but thats about all they are good for
I've thought of making fall trees with them for Halloween. Spray paint them black, add spider webbing, strategically place fall colored leaves, and put a jack o lantern or two at the bottom
That was one of the best suggestions I have ever gotten. Yes I was scammed and bought those lousy good for nothing tomato cages from walmart. They did not work. My indeterminate tomatoes which have gotten huge growing just in pots are being staked up right now with Long branch the luckily I had cut down a dead tree and had the 8 to 10 ft branches available to help me try to hold these poor plants up. I will know better next year that's for sure. Thanks for the advice.
We've had our cages for about a dozen years. They are made like yours. One of the best things we have ever made for the garden!
Remember to keep poking the growing limbs up to the next rung every other day if not everyday until you get to the top .
The little Tomato cages are my favorite.............from time to time when I need a short piece of scrap wire.
That's exactly why you only see a portion of this one in the video! It has already been cut into pieces! lol
I agree, I only use them for peppers and even then I sometimes have to add stakes.
Just bought my concrete reinforcing mesh and bolt cutters yesterday, T-posts tomorrow. I'' try these for cucumbers and zucchini as well. Thanks for this great, practical idea!
I use them and they stack really well on their sides all winter. I also use them to winterize smaller bushes and young trees, filling them with pine straw to cover it. Well worth the time and investment!
I find that using a clothes line between two tposts and dangling strings works great. The plants grab the string and grow right up and then down the clothes line.
Whaaaaa!? I would love to see a picture of that!
I would also love to see a pic!
I recently visited a garden where they were using a pulley system for some of their tomato varieties. They were in a tunnel similar to yours and the vines were growing about 20 feet straight up. When it was time to harvest, they just lowered the whole vine and picked them.
My Dad made some just like these and I inherited them when my parents quit gardening. They last forever! I have to admit I bought a pretty hot pink tomato cage at Walmart last year, its so pretty!😁
I've used those"store" bought tomato cages with wonderful success for over 45 years ......
The "store bought" ones are too short and flimsy for indeterminate varieties.
Me too, except they suck, and fall over too easy, and are too short. And flimsy. And break too easy. Besides that, they’re great.
As someone who has used wire tomato cages for years, I find your advice to be very appropriate. I started out with the light-wire cage you showed, but graduated to the similar, but heavier-wire cages, with a T-post as added support. These are adequate as long as you don't let the vines get any longer than 6'. Your wire re-mesh cages & T-posts are the best however, and you can add extensions to them, as you mentioned.
Great vid dude. I was about to drop the money for the scam cages, so happy I watched! FARM ON BROTHER!
Daniel enjoy your videos, love the farm life was one when younger . Know I bucket garden on my patio. We just moved to Oklahoma the first of the year was born in Indiana , moved here from Florida. Liked the idea about the tomato cages but I am 75 and have no need for that much wire to make some. I guess that is why they make the cheap ones for people like me. GOD BLESS you and your service in serving the state in protecting us all and your family. Keep up the good work and Dutch dues OK , too.
Great video brotha
Every time he says "the best tomato cage." Take a shot
“In my opinion”
They are the best.
@@kathyg4184 , in "my opinion" as well.
Those old cheap tomato cages make great Christmas tree decorations....you can wrap them in grapevines and lights!!!!
They work well for my dwarf tomatoes, I use them in the spring as support for covering to protect from chilly weather. At the end of the season you can get them really, really cheap.
I have a lot of these cages and I now cut the bottom ring off and use them for my peonies to contain them from falling to the ground when in full bloom. Works great.
I do the same, make them around 2 1/2ft tall. Works awesome !!
if you have the space your way is awesome.....I am limited on space so I single stem my indeterminate tomatoes. I drive a Tpost, then Zip tie a 10' PVC Pipe to that. I use nylon stretchy string to tie it to the single stem as it grows. More tomatoes per sq ft, and tomatoes get taller to get over the shed and reach more light.. Next year I am thinking about driving some 4x4x12 posts stringing some steel wire across the two posts and running down nylon rope to each plant to climb up. Industrial Greenhouse style on a smaller scale.
You could do a topsy turvy tomato garden with 5 gallon buckets. Then you'd have space at the top of the bucket for herbs and your tomato grows from the bottom. You'd need a really strong support beam to hold it up though. Like a tree or porch beam.
Chazaaaaam! i remember having seen this a year ago and have loads of this fencing all around our little farm, falling to pieces and completely free, off the farm, but there for the taking(or cleaning up,) but was unsure of the demensions of the actual cage...And you showed up this evening ...cheers...rr Normandy, France
Thanks for a great idea. I try to make them from Cow panel, but it's difficult to bend in a circle. This seems a bit more flexible.
That was great advice!
The little cages might be good for mini tomatoes like Minibel.
Thank you that is a tip I will never forget! I will likely have some other uses for that concrete reinforcement wire as well. I really liked that.
Thank for the tip. I love your garden especially the papaya in the back ground
My guess is, you haven't actually priced a roll of Remesh lately...but then again, this is a time machine.
Not sure of your point, but I bought a roll for $120 last year and got 24 nice size cages out of it. $5 per for VERY sturdy and long lasting cages is the best deal I've ever seen.
What if I only want 3 cages?
He looks like Seth McFarlane or am I trippin
your tripping
Nope. That’s the whole reason I clicked! Why is Seth talking about tomato cages!
Daniel is way more cool
Sherekhan420 U Looks more like post malone lol
Thank you for sharing this, Sir.
When i was in Australia with my eldest son, what i did with the tomato cage like what you're using, i put it on the sweet potato plant and just let the vines go in and around the cage. My son has only a small vegetable garden hence i couldn't let the sweet potato vines scatter around. And because i love to eat those sweet potato young leaves/tips, it's so easy to gather them everytime i need to.
Anyways, i wish those entrepreneurs would help their prospective buyers rather than fool them so that these buyers will return to them everytime they needed anything from their shops.
I have made those cages for my runner beans , it’s very study . Will make more cages for my tomatoes . Great idea , thanks from UK
84 acres. I think I can store two hundred piled up
This year I was going to try (for the first time) taking the same wire mesh that you're using and rather than making a 'cage' out of it was just going to run a straight row down the bed between a double row of tomatoes. Don't know if it will work well but was thinking that the plants could be trained to grow up the fence? Good idea or bad? 2nd year doing a garden so still learning :-) Thank you!
It’s worth a try for sure
BoatworksToday Look up Spring Hill tomatoes on yt. They train their tomatoes up different things, wire, string, and they trim them. It looks like they can plant closer together and that they get a higher yield also.
Awesome, thank you for the channel recommendation!
Great idea. Double the support with half the effort ;)
BoatworksToday will work definitely. I am using the wire mesh this way for years, works magically.
Thank you. I got some good ideas and workarounds from that. The guy over at One Yard Revolution has a tomato trellis he makes out of electrical conduit, a couple of rebar pieces, and concrete reinforcing wire. Very similar in concept to yours but maybe easier to store at year end. I think yours would be easier to train the tomatoes on.
Well I guess I been scam thanks for the information !
Not everyone can afford to throw a few hundred dollars on cages alone.
Our roll of concrete mesh was about $50 bucks and has made 25 tomato/pepper cages...and I still have some left. Our Walmart sells tomato cages for $5-7 each depending on size. So, for us, making our own was definitely cheaper.
thank you for all the information you are given
I had a few tomato cages when I started container gardening but mainly used wire hangers from our local dry cleaner and twisted them into shape or used twigs or something else to prop the plants up. And I tied with twine that had been given to me - Yankee ingenuity
I use old fencing. I cut the botoms off and push them in the ground so I don't need a 12 dollar stake.